Divers Alert Network featured Rick in the organization’s magazine, Alert Diver.
Take a look at the digital edition.
Nov 152011
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Jan 102011
Hasty: People show affection for injured couple
Kim Hasty
Fayobserver.comMost of 11-year-old Barrett Stiehl’s friends get a kick out of seeing the oversized framed photo hanging on his bedroom wall.
It’s of a huge great white shark breaking out of the water, captured on film in the midst of a 180-degree spin.
Cool.
Cindy Burnham took the photograph years ago, off the coast of Australia or New Zealand.
“It’s awesome,” said Barrett’s father, Robert Stiehl. “He loves it.”
So it was that Barrett wanted to send a few get-well wishes of his own when his mother, Meredith, told him about Cindy Burnham and her husband, Rick Allen.
“You don’t know me but I have a cool photo that Cindy took hanging in my room,” Barrett wrote on the blog set up at the getwellrick.com/guestbook. “I wish you both the best.”
Barrett is just one of many kind-hearted folks with ties to this community who are rallying to offer comfort and encouragement to Burnham and Allen.
Jan 072011
Burn victim faces long recovery
By Michael Futch
Staff writerCHAPEL HILL – The recovery process for Rick Allen is “going to be a difficult and long journey,” said the director of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals on Thursday.
Dr. Bruce Cairns, who also is an associate professor of surgery, classified Allen as critically ill. He said it could take “weeks, months possibly,” before Allen is well enough to walk out the doors of the hospital.
“The key here is he’s doing the vast majority of the work,” he said. “He has a strong will to live.”
